What Problems Need To Be Solved? in Spite of Predictions That Retail Banking Branches Would Be
What Problems Need To Be Solved? in Spite of Predictions That Retail Banking Branches Would Be
banks to increase sales, lower operational costs, and boost efficiency and customer satisfaction. The
direct benefits to the bank include increased profit and growth. The Customer Interaction
Management solution consists of multiple technology components that can be applied individually
or collectively, depending on the bank’s unique objectives
What Problems Need to Be Solved? In spite of predictions that retail banking branches would be
supplanted by a rapidly growing Internet as the primary channel for delivering bank products and
services, branches continue to play a vital role. In fact, banking executives now view the branch as
their best opportunity for developing and growing customer bases. Bank customers, for their part,
also treat the branch as an essential component of their banking relationship— and, most
importantly, not to the exclusion of the new channels such as ATMs, remote kiosks, and the Web. To
effectively compete in a multi-channel environment, retail banks must switch from a transactions-
oriented approach to a more interactive, multi-channel involvement with the customer. They must
also provision tools and infrastructure to support the all-important g
What Are the Business Benefits of Customer Interaction Management? The Cisco Customer
Interaction Management solution for a financial network
: • Uses technology to transform the branch to a retailbased sales environment to assist revenue
growth and increase competitive positioning
• Revolutionizes the customer experience and enhances customer loyalty, thereby enabling greater
profits
• Consolidates branch activities with other virtual sales channels to increase sales and service
coverage and raise sale closure rates
• Improves staff efficiency and resource use by virtualizing expertise across all customer channels •
Improves staff productivity and morale through the distribution and use of dynamic corporate
communication tools
• Decreases operational costsby building a common platform to launch current and future services
In addition,
the Customer Interaction Management solution takes advantage of the Cisco Service-Oriented
Network Architecture (SONA), which transforms the network into an integrated, multiservice
environment that not only supports all the interactive services a bank needs but also enables the
bank to deploy additional capabilities, quickly and easily, across all direct and virtual channels in the
future. Why Cisco?
. This facilitates the delivery of new and improved customer experiences and revenue-generating
services. This approach—